The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-05-21

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up the needy and in caring for their wants.
They are perhaps the most charitable young
women in the United States, and it is said
their list of pensioners contains no less than
$50 names, and that their gifts amount to
a round 100000 yearly. They inherit
their charitable tastes. Their father was
noted for his almsgiving, and their mother
paid the rent for 100 families for several
years before she died, and gave away, it is
said, $4,000 year to the poor. Mrs.
Philip Armour is very charitable. Mrs.
Leland Stanford does much unostentatious
giving, and I am told that Hetty Green
gives away considerable, though she is very
careful that it goes to the right persons.
Mrs. Green's chief ambition seems to be
to make money, and 1 might add also to
save it. She is not at all extravagant, and
there was paragraph published not long
ago which described her as carrying a sum
Of money to Philadelphia herself in order
to save the heavy charges which would
have been entailed had it been sent other
way. She sometimes carries fortunes in
securities about New York in hand satchel,
and uses the street cars as often as she does
her carriage Mrs. Hopkins is thoroughly
acquainted with all the ways of business.
She has broad grasp of financial questions,
looks after her vast interests closely and
drives a bargain with both tact and encon-
omy. Miss Elizabeth Garrett was the con-
fidential secretary of her father for some
years before he died, and she understands
the value of Baltimore and Ohio railroad
stock as well as any man in the country.
The richest widow in Colorado was the
wife of the late John W. Tiff, who was
known some years ago as the cattle king of
Colorado. Tiff left about 100000 head
of cattle, and it is said that his widow
manages his estate as well as any business
man could. She went to Colorado as a
sewing machine agent, though she came of
a wealthy family and could have remained
at home doing nothing. She there met
Tiff and married him, and | doubt not the
experience she obtained in connection with
the sewing machine aids her in the man
agement of her fortune. Speaking Of
cattle, there is cattle queen in Texas, near
Corpus Christi, Mrs. Rogers, who is said to
be worth 81 600, 900, and who has many
times as much stock as Job did in his most
prosperous days. Her husband is a preach
er, but Mrs. Rogers manages the business.
She sells the stock herself, buys all the sup
plies and can ride horse as well as any
of the many cowboys whom she has in her
employ. Another cattle queen is the widow
of Gen. Meredith, of Illinois, and she breeds
different kind of cattle from Mrs. Rogers.
Her stock is of better grade. Meredith
was worth about $500, 900 along in the sew
enties, but he failed. His wife took what
was left of the herd, managed 1t, and made
money. She was content with a good
round price for her stock, and she did not
believe in owning 900 bulls and $4,000
calves. One of the wealthiest women in
Ohio is Mrs. George Ward Nichols, who is
said to have an income of 100000. She
is the daughter of Joseph Longworth, and
she is the founder and proprietor of the
lockwood pottery, which is now noted for
its exquisite workmanship both in Europe
and America Mrs. Nichols took up the
pottery craze when it came over the coun-
try few years ago. She works in it about
five hours daily, and is constantly at work
improving her ware. Her work sells well
in New York, and they have an interna-
tional reputation. Mrs. Frank Leslie has
made 81 10000 in four years, and there
is no brighter business woman in the world
than she.
The richest woman in South America is
a good business woman. She is Dona Is
adora Cousino, of Santiago, Chill. She got
o big fortune from her father and married
another. Her husband died, and she has
now millions of acres of land, millions Of
money, hundreds of thousands of cattle,
coal, copper and silver mines, a railroad and
feet Of iron steamships. She has an in
come of several millions a year, and her
coal mines bring her in $4,000 month.
She owns a atown of Z 900 people, and pays
out 100000 month in wages. She has
superintendents for all her establishments,
and she receives weekly reports from them.
She is sharp at driving a bargain, and,
while she is very generous, she requires a
strict account Of every dollar made and
spent upon her estates. She is still under
so and declares she will never marry again.
She understands fortune hunters and for
tune hunting, and is satisfied to remain as
she is.
l have said nothing about the rich mar
ried women of the country-women who
have property in their own right-and l
forgot to mention among the rich unmarried
girls that Amanda Eubanks, who lives near
Sparta, Ga, is the richest negress in the
world, It is said that Miss Eubanks re-
ceived $1,000 900 from the estate of a veal
thy Georgia planter, who died in 1885,
leaving an estate of about S500,000. He
had no children, but large number of rel
atives. He cut off his kindred with small
sums and bequeathed the remainder as
above stated. Speaking of rich married
women, many of our prominent public men
have added to their fortunes by good mar
riages. Whitelaw Reds wife, the daugh-
ter of D. o. Mills, is worth fortune,
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, dates his
prosperity from the time he was made tutor
to Peter Cooper's daughter, whom he after
ward married. Senator Payne's wife
brought considerable real estate into the
family, and the old Perry farm, upon a part
of which the Payne homestead stands, Is
now in the most fashionable part of Euclid
avenue. Secretary Whitney married a
prospective fortune in Henry B. Payne's
daughter, and Mrs Whitney or her child
rem will probably fall heir to the dozen and
more millions which her bachelor brother
Oliver owns Congressman Hit, of Hi
nois, got nice lot with his wife, and John
Hay was made millionaire by his marriage
with the daughter of Amasa Stone. Con-
gresham Tom Bayne, of Pittsburg, has
made a good deal of money himself, but his
wife, who is the daughter of Smith, the
partner of Hostetter, who made the stomach
bitters, has a fortune which runs high into
the hundreds of thousands, and Senator
Hale's wife inherited a fortune from her
father.
A simple barometer that can be made
for ones self, and which, though old, the
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